Pierre de Hagenbach

Pierre de Hagenbach (or Peter von Hagenbach 1423 - 1474, Breisach), also called Pierre d' Archambaud or Pierre d' Aquenbacq.

Burgundian knight, resulting from the Alsatian minor nobility . The family was originating in the village of Hagenbach, where it had a Château.

Pierre de Hagenbach was ordering 9^ème company of ordinance of the troops of the duke of Burgundy, Charles Bold the. Because of the services rendered to the duke at the time the war against the Kingdom of France, initially within the League of the Public property, it is named in 1469 baillif of the territories of the Haut-Rhin pawned by the duke Sigismond of Austria at Charles Bold the following the Traité of Saint-Omer.

Talented war leader, member of the Order of Saint-Georges of Burgundy, it was also depicts by the chroniclers of the time (especially those of with dimensions of its enemies) like a man with the brutal and canted character. He was for as much a servant faithful and attached to the interests of his Master, Charles the Bold one, duke of Burgundy.

Following the revolt of the town of Breisach, it was stopped, considered and carried out after an iniquitous lawsuit orchestrated by the imperial cities (Strasbourg, Basle, Colmar and Schlettstadt, allied with Bern and the Swiss Cantons) of which it had injured the economic interests.

Pierre de Hagenbach left in the history of Alsace, the memory of a character without pity, having misused of his authority, a kind of damnée heart of Charles the Bold one. The first chroniclers who evoked it belonged to the camp of its enemies and forged a black legend to him. It will be necessary to await the XXe century and work of the historians Stouff and Nerlinger so that this portrait is moderated and that one discovers the multiple facets of the life of this knight sundgauvien.

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